Printing to a specific tray?

[AIMC]

Hi,

For all you printing experts!

A colleague has a customer running HPUX who want to use tray 2 (this is the headed paper tray) on their printer every time the line "1BE" is at the top of a page to be printed. The default tray is tray 4. This is probably straight forward but my printing experience is zero!

Regards,

Aidan

[Pete Randall]

lp -obin#


Pete

[Gavin Clarke]

This script is my attempt to pick up the 1BE part of your question. There are probably better ways to do this.

It is run with two arguments: lp1BE -dprinter filename


TOPLINE=`head -1 $2`
if [ "$TOPLINE" = "1BE" ]
then
lp -obin2 $1 $2
else
lp $1 $2
fi

Cheers

[AIMC]

Hi,

Thanks Pete & Gavin,

The lp -d -obin# seems to work for some files but not others, there are some PCL commands? attached to the top of files to be printed so i think they may have to look at this before anything else.

Aidan

[Gavin Clarke]

Could you attach an example of one that doesn't work please?
Just so people can look and suggest options.

I'm thinking perhaps sed might be able to do something here.

[Procnus]

This is just off the top of my head, and I haven't tested it:

cat | \
sed s/1BE/^]&l5G\
1BE/ | lp -d

The replace is with an Escape&l5G (Ctrl-V Esc & ell 5 G)

I hope this helps and I haven't confused you.

Cheers
Steven